> Hate to be the one asking that annoying question (and I don't have > IRC access here) but just wondering whether I'm the only one seeing > odd Wikipedia behaviour today/yesterday. The most common symptom is > page timeout, but have also seen pages locked for editing > (temporarily), and fr.wikipedia.org even delivered me a page in print > mode when it wasn't requested.

Or just failed to load .css file from squid - styling is done separately from documents with content.

I was going to offer the same possible explanation. It sounds more like lacking CSS than anything else from the description.

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:09:36PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote: CSS is meant as a replacement for basically all presentation stuff in web markup. As such, it handles stuff like font formatting, layout stuff previously handled by tables, positioning, and so on. With a tweaked CSS file, you could make Wikipedia pages entirely unrecognizable. -- Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste your time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do." - McCloctnick the Lucid _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

To reduce our bandwidth costs in Tampa we've had to move image file traffic for European visitors to the Amsterdam proxy squids. At the moment they're overloaded, we're still working out how to rebalance things there. Everything works great here in America. :)